so many different kinds of linguists

[alexr_rwx]

Sitting outside Mike's office, listening to him have a meeting with some of his undergrad students, and I'm using a windows machine to edit our linguistics project paper in Word.

Mm, Word.

My teammates sent me a nearly-complete paper, very nice of them. It was like 12 pages (cut down from 16!) about clitic pronoun placement in Spanish, with little bits about how we made it go with OpenCCG. I'm expanding out the parts that describe our implementation. I get the impression that they come from a very different academic culture -- even the paper-writing feels different. So many citations right there inline (Chomsky 1988; Rudnick 2010); they want you to know for sure where this work sits in the history of linguists who've worked on Spanish clitics.

Have we had this conversation before, about paper style?

I like the one-column approach. That's something that I wish CS papers did more often.

Comments

[lyceum-arabica.livejournal.com]

an adolescent part of me is giggling at 'spanish clitic'.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

I'm getting increasingly cunning as I take these CL classes!

(how do you feel about what Lindsey's working on?)

[lindseykuper]

At one point in recent memory, Alex was working on clitics and I was working on Coq.

[lindseykuper]

Wren winterkoninkje and I used a one-column format for our final project report for Amal's class. It looks pretty nice (the content notwithstanding)! I'll send it to you.

[jes5199.livejournal.com]

it drives me nuts that all the papers linked from Lambda the Ultimate use the same crappy pdf format with two columns forcing me to scroll back and forth in crazy patterns to read them

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

To the max.

In the grim future of Hello Kitty, papers will reflow nicely on your screen, even if you have a netbook, ereader, phone, or big ol' monitor.

How to make this happen?